SUNK BY MINES
BIG GERMAN STEAMER IN BALTIC AND TWO TUGS TOWING DOCK. FORTY MEN KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, May 17. Swedish seamen at Malmo report that the German merchantman Gneisenau, c‘f 18,160 tons, hit a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea at the end of April. Mines also sank two German tugboats while they were towing a dock, late in April. Forty men were killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1943, Page 4
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73SUNK BY MINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1943, Page 4
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